Shirt.



A. S. WEISHAAR.

SHIRT.

APPLICATION men JUNE 23, 1913.

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AUGUST S. WEISHAAR, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1915.

Application filed June 23, 1913. Serial No. 775,248.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUcUs'r S. WEISHAAR,

a citizen of the United States of America,

and a resident of \Vaterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shirts, and the object of my improvement is to provide a shirt of the ordinary type with means whereby suspenders may be worn thereunder, when desired, and be concealed from view, yet permitting the suspender loops to be secured to the waist-band of the trousers in the usual way. This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view of the inner side of my improved shirt as spread out open flatly with a pair of suspenders placed thereon in a po sition as in use. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the right-hand half only of said shirt, and Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the same part, the left-hand portion of the shirt in each case being removed. Fig. 4 is a representation of my improved shirt as placed on the wearer while in use.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several VleWS.

I am aware that various attempts have been made, more or less successful, to supply a shirt or shirt-waist under which suspenders may be worn to be concealed from view. In other devices, where this end is sought, the arrangements adopted for permitting the suspender loops to be removably secured to the waist-band of the trousers are inconvenient and unsightly. I have therefore adopted means whereby modifications may be made in the ordinary type of shirt provided with forward and back flaps whereby the suspenders may be concealed under the shirt, yet no burden of supporting being placed upon the shirt itself, which is, therefore, worn in the usual way.-

I have shown in Fig. 1, a shirt of the socalled coat pattern, having its waist part 2 provided with a lower part 1, divided into forward and rear flaps, of which the forward flap is vertically divided medially in line with the vertical division of the waist part. However, my improvement is as ap.

plicable to a shirt of the type which does not open clear down the front as to that type shown herein. The lower or flap portion 1 is overlapped under the upper part 2, and has its upper edge united to said part 2 by interrupted alined rows of stitching 10, of which one interruption 6 occurs at the middle of the back of the garment, while the other interruptions 7 occur a short distance to each side of the vertically medial line of the front part of the garment.

Referring to Fig. 2, one of the interruptions 7 is plainly shown whereby an open space is left between the overlapped parts 1 and 2, the lowermost portion of the part 2 being shown in said figure as raised in order to show the said interruption. When the pair of suspenders 3 is worn underneath this type of shirt, the suspender loops 4 in front on each side are passed down between the parts 1 and 2 through the interruptions 7 to have their ends depend below the lower free edge of the part 2, as indicated in Fig. 4, where said loops are accessible to be conveniently detachably secured on the buttons 17 on the inside of the waist-band of the trousers 18. In like manner, the rear loops 5 of thesuspenders may be passed down through the opening of the interruptions 6 between said parts to depend therefrom and be secured to like buttons on the back of the waist-band.

In order to prevent the lower free edge of the part 2 from lifting or becoming displaced and visible above the'waist-band of the trousers, I have supplied suitable means for securing the same in the properly adjusted position relative to said waist band. This means provides a plurality of pairs of vertically spaced buttons 1%15 on the flap part 1, on the middle vertical line thereof between the loop parts 5 of the suspenders, and for which a buttonhole 16 is provided in the part 2 near its lower edge. The pairs low, the buttonholes 16 may be secured about the lowermost buttons 8, 13 and 15, and since these buttons lie under the upper edge of the waist-band they are not visible. When the waist-band is rather high, the buttonhole 16 may be engaged about the uppermost buttons 9, 12 and 14, in which position they are also covered from view, while yet permitting of a proper fullness of the garment, as shown in Fig. 4, immediately above the waist-band. It should be understood, however, that the fastening means just described do not in any way engage the trousers, and simply relate to keeping the shirt parts in proper wearing position relative to each other, and also so that the upper part 2 may have the proper fullness. No burden is carried by the shirt 2 or its flap part 1, for the suspender loops 4 and 5 move freely through the inner spaces afforded by the interruptions 6 and 7 in the stitching 10 where the upper edge 11 is united to the part 2. It is, of course, obvious that when desired,

the suspenders may be worn on the outside of the garment in the usual manner.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A shirt composed of a body-part and an underlaid flap-part secured thereto at separated places above the lower edge of the body-part, and several groups of verticallyspaced buttons on that part of the flap-part which underlies the body-part, the bodypart which overlies the flap-part having several groups of vertically-spaced buttonholes alined with said buttons. and adapted to be engaged adjustably with said buttons to preserve a blouse-effect to the body-part.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 5th day of June, 1913.

AUGUST S. VVEISHAAB.

\Vitnesses W. H. BRUNN, G150. G. KENNEDY. 

